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Updated: June 15, 2025
We had convinced ourselves, and pretty nearly everybody else, that the State was only fit for cattle-grazing, and that we were the most competent grazers; furthermore, we were in possession, and no man could come in without our consent. "However, a very curious law of our own making was our undoing.
Now was the Man's heart loosened, and he told of all he had seen and done and lived; of his spendthrift youth, passed aboard tramp freighters between Lisbon and Rio, Leith and Natal, Tokyo, Melbourne and the Golden Gate wherever the sea ran green; of ginseng-growing in China, shellac gathering in India, cattle-grazing in Wyoming.
"Three thousand acres is a mighty big place when you've got farm-land as well as cattle-grazing." "It's nearly all good farm-land," answered the old man with decision. "I don't believe much in ranching or cattle. I'm for the plough and the wheat. There's more danger from cattle disease than from bad crops. I'm getting rid of my cattle. I expect to sell a lot of 'em to-day."
"Three thousand acres is a mighty big place when you've got farm-land as well as cattle-grazing." "It's nearly all good farm-land," answered the old man with decision. "I don't believe much in ranching or cattle. I'm for the plough and the wheat. There's more danger from cattle disease than from bad crops. I'm getting rid of my cattle. I expect to sell a lot of 'em to-day."
I have seen hundreds of thousands of acres of what once were beautiful and fertile cattle-grazing lands in Montana, that has been left by grazing sheep herds looking precisely as if the ground had been shaven with razors and then sandpapered. The sheep have driven out the cattle, and the price of beef has gone up accordingly.
He had a very high opinion of Bechuanaland as a cattle-grazing country.
He bowed assent, biting the short hairs of his moustache in vexation and embarrassment. "Hardly an hotel a wretched shanty of the usual corrugated-iron and mud-wall type, in the cattle-grazing country between Driepoort and Kroonfontein. And it seems my fate to be continually bringing our conversation back to a most unhappy and painful theme." "I acquit you of the intention to pain or wound.
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